CVE-2025-55188 Path traversal in 7-Zip
Attackers can exploit improper symbolic link handling during archive extraction to write files to arbitrary locations, potentially leading to code execution.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- A user has to click or open something
- Fix
- Available
What is CVE-2025-55188?
CVE-2025-55188 is a low-severity path traversal vulnerability in 7-Zip, published on 8 Aug 2025. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, and only if a user opens a file or follows a link.
Official description
7-Zip before 25.01 does not always properly handle symbolic links during extraction.
Weakness: CWE-59
Which versions are affected by CVE-2025-55188?
It affects 1 product.
Products include 7-Zip 7-Zip.
How do I fix CVE-2025-55188?
Upgrade to a fixed version.
Upgrade, and resolve every user-supplied path against an allowed base folder before opening it. More about Path traversal.
Is CVE-2025-55188 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2025-55188 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Public exploit code: 2 proofs of concept on GitHub.
Other vulnerabilities in 7-Zip
Sources
Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2025-55188, GHSA-58pw-r2v4-pwjv, UBUNTU-CVE-2025-55188.